Archive for the 'House Church Stories' Category

Looking into the mirror: the power of simple church community

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But [...]

United Spiritual Families

People of every age, race, and class. Leaders from Virginia, Denver, Chicago, Oregon, Boston, Colorado Springs, Ottowa, L.A., Maryland, San Francisco, and… Southeast India.
“I don’t want to plant churches. Jesus said ‘I will build my church’ and he’s a lot better at it. I would rather build families, because we know the church is not [...]

Share your experience from Sunday…

So just thought Id start this thread here for folks to reply and share thoughts or experiences or feedback from Sunday’s gathering. Here’s a few questions to spur some thinking on this:

What was your favorite part of the gathering?
What was your least favorite part of the gathering?
Any thoughts about what to do different if and when [...]

When God Speaks

This article is by a guest contributor, Greg. I met Greg at a gathering of house church leaders in Loveland who were getting together to discuss forming a network. I heard Greg’s story and wanted to share this story with you all.
Two years ago, had you met me, I was busy. Busy doing what good [...]

Growing your churches tall and strong

Stapleton is a growing neighborhood in Denver, built on the former site of our airport. As you walk through the open air malls, there are young trees in the middle of large circles of soil. Three metal stakes surround the base, and strands from each stake connect to the diminutive trunk. Though the tree is [...]

Ramblings of a Happy House Church Member

I recently posted this on my personal blog and thought it would be good to share here. ~Rose Starr
Some of you may know that we are a part of a house church network. Desi, my husband is a pastor/house church coach/mentor here in Denver. We have had a very interesting journey these past 4+ years [...]

Partnering with simple churches in Kenya

Friends,
All of us have been drawn into simple/house churches believing that Jesus had more in mind for church than what we had been experiencing in the institutional church. At this present moment, we have the opportunity to explore more deeply Jesus’ idea of church by partnering with simple churches in Kenya in this time [...]

A Modern Miracle!

A Miracle is something only God could do, and I can confidently say I have been blessed to be a part of a very unique one.
    Over a year ago, my family left our traditional church, feeling the call of God to start gathering from house to house in Aurora and east Denver - just as [...]

House church networks connecting with each other

Last year, my network of churches in Lakewood began meeting every 8 weeks with a network from Golden for mutual encouragement and celebration. More recently, we have begun meeting with the leaders of networks in central and east Denver. Out of this flowed a combined Celebration on October 20th which included worship, sharing and vision [...]

House Church is a great model for urban church planting

I have been an urban missionary for the past 19 years. Although I have been blessed to be involved in planting two (traditional) urban churches, I have always been frustrated that so much time went to raising money to pay for buildings. This left little to actually help meet the needs of the [...]